The Foundations of Western Civilization

The Pax Romana (1x21)

Udgivelsesdato: Jan 01, 2002

When Octavian became Augustus, First Citizen, in 31 B.C., he was inaugurating a 200-year period of security, prosperity, and wise rule that Tacitus would nonetheless wryly label "a desert [that we] called peace." Was Tacitus right?